Diary of a weekend gardener

Rain stopped play

Well as you can see from the graph below we had a huge thunderstorm at 3pm today. I planted up a pretty pittosporum for the neighbours (C&R) this morning, removing an old berberis to make space. Hot work, even for a tough old camel like me - over 29C in the shade. I knew from the crackling on the radio that there was a storm around, but it has been much bigger than I expected. It's still coming and going in fresh waves of black cloud, lightning and heavy showers. Some of the local roads are flooded.

Can't complain for my part, but am a bit worried about Daughter No2 who is in Milton Keynes at an open air Green Day concert. She will either roast or drown, there is no in between today.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 4:42 pm